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Wild Service
- Author
- Nick Hayes
- Narrator
- Nadia Shaikh
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 April 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘Powerful . . . Wild Service is a call to action that might just be the founding text for a new environmentalism’ Patrick Barkham, Guardian
‘A reckoning with our past and a vision for a new ecological future’ Amy-Jane Beer
‘Seeks to undo the damage of exclusionary ownership through the transformative power of belonging’ Guy Shrubsole
In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European countries on three factors: biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Britain came last in each category. The findings are clear: we are suffering, and nature is too.
Enter ‘Wild Service’ – a visionary concept crafted by the pioneers of the Right to Roam campaign, which argues that humanity’s loss and nature’s need are two sides of the same story. Blending science, nature writing and indigenous philosophy, this groundbreaking book calls for mass reconnection to the land and a commitment to its restoration.
In Wild Service we meet Britain’s new nature defenders: an anarchic cast of guerilla guardians who neither own the places they protect, nor the permission to restore them. Still, they’re doing it anyway. This book is a celebration of their spirit and a call for you to join. So, whether you live in the countryside or the city, want to protect your local river or save our native flora, this is your invitation to rediscover the power in participation – the sacred in your service.
Critics Review
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A reckoning with our past and a vision for a new ecological future
Amy-Jane Beer
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Seeks to undo the damage of exclusionary ownership through the transformative power of belonging
Guy Shrubsole
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Powerful . . . [Wild Service] is a call to action that might just be the founding text for a new environmentalism. A forthcoming book by a diverse band of right to roam campaigners offers a radical new vision of how people can repair both the natural world and their broken relationship to it
Guardian
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A clarion cry for a mass reconnection with the British countryside, this book explores how our loss and nature’s need are intertwined. Blending science, nature writing and philosophy from an array of experts, artists and writers, it encourage the reader to become the whistleblower against environmental destruction and shares inspiring stores of those defending our countryside
National Geographic Traveller
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A new kind of politics is brewing. It is both radical and rooted in our history . . . This new book brings together writers and activists who are working towards “a new culture that returns nature to the centre of society”. Its title reflects the idea not only of serving the planet by protecting it, but the idea that in doing so, we honour something sacred
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Nick Hayes
- Narrator
- Nadia Shaikh
- Duration
- 7 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9781526673275
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- The countryside, country life: general interest
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Wild Service by Nick Hayes and Jon Moses, read by Nadia Shaikh.‘Powerful . . . Wild Service is a call to action that might just be the founding text for a new environmentalism’ Patrick Barkham, Guardian‘A reckoning with our past and a vision for a new ecological future’ Amy-Jane Beer ‘Seeks to undo the damage of exclusionary ownership through the transformative power of belonging’ Guy Shrubsole In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European countries on three factors: biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Britain came last in each category. The findings are clear: we are suffering, and nature is too.Enter ‘Wild Service’ – a visionary concept crafted by the pioneers of the Right to Roam campaign, which argues that humanity’s loss and nature’s need are two sides of the same story. Blending science, nature writing and indigenous philosophy, this groundbreaking book calls for mass reconnection to the land and a commitment to its restoration.In Wild Service we meet Britain’s new nature defenders: an anarchic cast of guerilla guardians who neither own the places they protect, nor the permission to restore them. Still, they’re doing it anyway. This book is a celebration of their spirit and a call for you to join. So, whether you live in the countryside or the city, want to protect your local river or save our native flora, this is your invitation to rediscover the power in participation – the sacred in your service.
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